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• Issue #59 - January 2008 - Details
The Young Family of Spinning-Wheel Builders, The Eclipse Spinner, Grant Betzner, Spinning-Wheel Collector, W. J. Robidoux, Spinning-Wheel Maker, New Ways to Research Spinning Wheels and Their Makers, Albert Graves, A Canadian Wheel Maker, Another Canadian Wheel-Head Maker

• Issue #58 - October 2007 - Details
A Spinning Wheel Marked IOHN SMITH, WRENTHAM, Col. John Smith, Wheelwright, Walter Mathews, Spinning-Wheel Maker From Southern California, More About A-Frame Wheels and U-Shaped Axle Cranks, Two Very Unusual Spinning Wheels

• Issue #57 - July 2007 - Details
Spinning on a Handful of Hand-Turned Flyer Wheels, Internal Cranks and Dave Pennington, Spinning-Wheel Collector, A Converted Pennsylvania "Spooling Wheel", Scutching Wheel, Scutching Machine, or Swingling Mill?, Updates

• Issue #56 - April 2007 - Details
Discovering a Handspindle Tradition in America, A Tale of Two Connecticut Great Wheels, Brass Bearings on Great Wheels, An Unusual Spinning Wheel From Hungary, Two Unusual Spinning Wheels

• Issue #55 - January 2007 - Details
A Bangkok Spindle Wheel, Is This Queen Victoria's Spinning Wheel?, A Unique Spinning Wheel in British Columbia, A Giant Wheel, What Wheel Measurements Do You Take and Why?, Updates

• Issue #54 - October 2006 - Details
Three Hackles, Accelerating Wheel Heads: A Comparison, Head Hunting, Moses Demming and Wheel Heads, An Ambidextrous Great Wheel, A Gallery of Unusual Wheel Heads, Corn-Husk Bearings

• Issue #53 - July 2006 - Details
Alfred Andresen, Spinning-Wheel Entrepreneur, Spinning Wheels in the Alfred Andresen Catalog, My Cast-Iron Spinning Wheel, Decorated Hetchels - Part 2

• Issue #52 - April 2006 - Details
A Dominy Family Textile Tool, Decorated Hetchels - Part 1, Musical Niddy-Noddie, A skinner-Style Bobbin Winder, The Turkish Wheel, Two Turkish Textile Tools, A German Double-Flyer Spinning Wheel

• Issue #51 - January 2006 - Details
Scandinavian Spinning Wheels in the Midwest, Horizontal Norwegian Spinning Wheels, Two Unusual Norwegian Spinning Wheels, Update: Flax Boxes, Three Spinning Boxes

• Issue #50 - October 2005 - Details
Skinner/Howland Patent Wheel Revisited, Beneath the Grime and Crime: A Spinning Wheel Encrusted, Two Embellished Spinning Wheels, An Unusual Upright Spinning Wheel, Inquiry: A Flax Box

• Issue #49 - July 2005 - Details
Two Pennsylvania Great Wheels, The Browning Spinning Wheel, A Mystery Object in the Cummer Collection, Nels Wiberg, Spinning-Wheel Maker, A Talk With a Spinning Wheel, How a Latvian Spinning Wheel Gained Freedom

• Issue #48 - April 2005 - Details
Londonderry, NH Flax Wheels, Hugh Ramsey, Spinning-Wheel Maker, The Moulin Flamande, Update: Silk Reelers

• Issue #47 - January 2005 - Details
A Special Reeves Spinning Wheel, Herb Myers: A Western U.S. Spinning-Wheel Maker, A History of the Attache-Sized Charkha, Re-creating the Canadian Production Wheel, In Memoriam: Dorothy Burnham, Update on Patent Holder Timothy Dewey Brown, Index to Issues #1 - 46

• Issue #46 - October 2004 - Details
Of Bat's Heads and Direct-Drive Spindles, Two Canadian Pendulum Wheels, How Pendulum Wheels Work, Spinning Wheels in Old Inventories, Remembering Joan Cummer.

• Issue #45 - July 2004 - Details
A Rare Form of Accelerated Flax Wheel, Spinning Wheels of Nova Scotia, Silk-Reeling Equipment From Japan, A Digital Collection of Distaffs.

• Issue #44 - April 2004 - Details
Shaker Umbrella Swifts, Counterclockwise Reels, A Small Tilden Wheel, Captain Calvin Tilden, Spinning-Wheel Maker, Double Spindle Posts on Great Wheels, Book Review of Spinning Wheels and Accessories by David A. Pennington and Michael B. Taylor, Koedek.

• Issue #43 - January 2004 - Details
A Visit to the Ashford Handcraft Center, Restoring a Hathorn Spinning Wheel, George H. Hathorn and His Patent, John Henry Nuteis Handspinner, The Hathorn-Nute Connection.

• Issue #42 - October 2003 - Details
Dorothy Budge Kirk: A Profile, An Unusual Canadian Great Wheel, And Still More on Tilt Tension, Three Spinning Wheels at Colonial Williamsburg, A "Tilden" Wheel at the Shelburne Museum, Spinning Wheels in Iceland.

• Issue #41 - July 2003 - Details
Wool Combs and Wool Combing, Give Me a Break, Randle Holme on Wool Combs, A French-Canadian Picardy, An Unusual Spinning Wheel from Quebec, Another Tilt-Tensioning Device.

• Issue #40 - April 2003 - Details
Flax Processing Tools, The Sitting Distaffs of East-Central Europe, Randle Holme on Flax Processing Tools, Spinning Wheels on eBay.

• Issue #39 - January 2003 Details
Gandhian Book Charkha, Elsie Davenport's Spinning Wheel, Research by Florence Feldman-Wood, Soloman Plant and His Customers, The Spinning Wheel That Went to Harvard, Ordering Instructions for Index to Issues #1 - #38.

• Issue #38 - October 2002 - Details
A Comparison of Tilt-Tensioning Devices, A Trousseau Spinning Wheel, Whorl Nubs, Taming the Worst of the Great Wheels, The Answer from Pat Bownas, Twisted Thoughts in Both Directions.

• Issue #37 - July 2002 - Details
Picardy Spinning Wheels Revisited, A Thomas Tilt-Tension Spinning Wheel, Spinning Wheel Maker Marks, Seeking a Spinning Wheel by Ogadiah Higginbotham, Two "Blodgett" Wheel-Head Labels.

• Issue #36 - April 2002 - Details
The Ranee Spinning Wheel, Bobbin Winder Basics, Three Unusual Bobbin Winders, Six Quick Fixes, Two Book Reviews.

• Issue #34 - October 2001 - Details
A Manx "Poppet" Wheel, Our Heirloom European Wheels, How to Buy an Antique Spinning Wheel, A Passion for Quebec Spinning Wheels.

• Issue #33 - July 2001 - Details
The Search for the Elusive Girdle Wheel, A Girdle Wheel by Fosters of Carlisle, Two European Double-Flyer Wheels, A Dutch Double-Flyer Wheel, Restoring a German Double-Flyer Upright Wheel.

• Issue #32 - April 2001 - Details
Was It Ever True? Part 2, Two Unusual Reels - Marketing, Not Utility, A Distinctive Click Reel, Three Manufactured Swifts, Updates: J. Sturdevant, E.B. Sanford, Silas Barnum.

• Issue #31 - January 2001 - Details
Solomon Plant, Wheel Maker, Barnum and Sturdevant Double-Flyer Wheels, Asian Wheels from Pat Bownas, The Rognvaldson Spinning Wheel, In Memoriam: Walter Ashford, Index to Issues #1 - #30.

• Issue #30 - October 2000 - Details
Sanfords of Newtown CT, Sanford Family Spinning Wheels, Four Small Wheels, The Henzie Collection of Textile Tools, An Adaptation of the Friction Spindle.

• Issue #29 - July 2000 - Details
Benjamin Pierce Wheel-Head Maker, Inside a Miner's Head, Three Unusual Wheel Heads, A Wheel Head with Pewter Bearings, The American Textile History Museum.

• Issue #28 - April 2000 - Details
Spinning Wheels from the Channel Islands, A Small Scottish Spinning Wheel, Great Wheel Tilts and Leans, Inquiry - Was It Ever True? Part 1, The Home Textile Tool Museum.

• Issue #24 - April 1999
Andrew Hemphill, Isle of Man Spinning Wheel, George Potts Spinning Wheel Shop, A Spindle with a Difference, Braces on Spinning Wheels Part 1.

• Issue #23 - January 1999
Left-footed Wheels, Signatures - S. Morison, A Lyman Wight Pendulum Wheel, A Mennonite-style Track Wheel, An Accordian-Arm Wheel.

• Issue #20 - April 1998
Excerpts from Academy of Armory by Randle Holme 1688 Part 1, Bageshwari Cherka, Clock Reel Construction, Signatures - A. Beers, Swifts.

• Issue #19 - January 1998
Tabletop Patented Spinning Wheels, An Unusual Dual Spinning Wheel, Two "Carriage" Spinning Wheels.

• Issue #18 - October 1997
Spinning in Stereo, Deciphering Wear Marks, An Unusual Accelerating Head, Swifts Part 2.

• Issue #17 - July 1997
Turkish-style Spindles, To Spin in Tirol, A Track Wheel in Missouri, Track Wheels in Iowa.

• Issue #16 - April 1997
A. Miner: Inventor of the Accelerating Wheel Head, The Wheel Head Collection of Sue Burns, A Wheel with a Bentwood Drive Wheel, My Museum Adventure.

• Issue #15 - January 1997
A Rare Farnham Accelerating Wheel, Bill Ralph's Workshop, Vertical Two-wheel Spinning Wheels, Some Thoughts on Reels.

• Issue #14 - October 1996
Manx Spinning Wheel Makers, Making Wooden Threads, Scandinavian Spinning Wheels, Research Rules of Thumb.

• Issue #12 - April 1996
Inside a Clock Reel, Farnham Reels, Reeling Pins, Swiss-style Upright Wheels Part 2, A 1799 Wheel.